and we're back and this is it this is the finale this is 5th 2019 and we're done here and what are we watching live in french yeah biddle he's only done two films i know there's like a time travel element and another guy gets approached or involved with some kind of young business guy who gives him the opportunity to go back in time 1974 yeah to his chosen era um and i think my guess initially is to like right or wrong probably has something to do with like oh righting or wrong i thought you meant right and wrong no right or wrong and probably has something to do with like a relationship in his past that has failed okay um my guess would be like to fix his marriage oh okay um but we'll see but we'll see it's a french film so it usually involves a woman apparently the rules are raving it's like this has done what french cinema hasn't done in a long time and it's actually good yeah or whatever that means because i don't watch french i would expect it to be kind of quirky stylish you know safely shot and like directed sure i don't know anyone in this i didn't even look anything i only look at those narratives but that's it out of all 11 movies that i've seen yeah this is this is the one that i have zero expectations for so well i mean you should have some since this is the closing gala it's wide open for me and i'm just happy to be surprised and be here we here to witness this yeah okay so uh blank slate no expectations or expectations of some sort so uh this is the before this is after okay closing gala okay i'm assuming the opening gala is also this kind of quality where it's feel good happy and sort of challenging but not so it's more general audience i think this viv oh yeah so this is the end of viv of 2019. um this fifth thank you subaru uh for your test drive and uh media i'm not media pass festival pass that i actually got to watch the most special presentations ever i normally don't go watch special presentations but i sort of suck quite a few i understand why i don't because normally they screen them in normal screenings or theaters anyways and they're typically geared toward general audiences and we're not general audiences because we're pretentious and what does that mean again it's a beautiful area oh i get it now okay so thoughts i mean i get why it's a crowd pleaser i get why people come away from this movie liking it but i'm also like there's so many things like just just quickly like the story is convoluted the character motivations are weird um there's no resolution like you mentioned the movie actually ends on a mark where i felt like it's gonna end here oh it actually ended there yeah it's just it has a good concept but i think it needed when i when we first read the description i think we were both thinking that it had actual elements to it and i think or not even sci-fi just something trippy yeah or even just like something spec like just something something more to kind of pair with that high concept yeah and really it was not it was all theatrics which also could have been pulled off well but you know the actual business itself the business in the film of of recreating these people's um you know desired like temporal destinations it's one of those don't think too much and then you can accept it but once you start thinking like literally just thinking about it a little bit more you'll be like this makes no sense but like you were saying the business from the get-go has flaws yeah um and then it's a character trait like if i i definitely felt that you know you could show the flaws but then show me where the sets were perfect and it worked and your client was happy yeah so this time telling me every time they tell you it's just they tell you oh the client loved it but you never see a client and literally the movie opens with a sequence showing like the ruination of us of a set yeah basically and like a thing go wrong yeah so at the very beginning we get the sense that this business isn't as smooth as it purports itself to be yeah but yet it keeps telling you that it's making lots of money this is doing great and it costs a lot i can't really tell the staff seem to like love their job but also suck and they're not good at it yeah um but yeah i mean in the end it's really just a simple story of a marriage trying to two people trying to rekindle the flame of their marriage and playing it out in that kind of higher concept i story idea i don't know it just it seemed like a lot that was unnecessary and there were so many side tracks in this journey to get the two characters back together i think it was sort of like all over the place really like you have the the key narrative which is the marriage and then you have the affair and then you have the the the main character and our lead actress that thing and then you have the sun's relationship with both of them and then you also had the the the set maker like [ __ ] guy yeah narrative as well yeah and see his relationship with the lead actress girl um to me was like i was completely unnecessary for the movie don't care about their relationship at all it seems super dysfunctional it's just like let's put in sex scenes and also just spice her up so she's more of like a rebel and doesn't pay like she's good too good for her own good type of vibe yeah i think it was just a section up really yeah like if you cut out all their sequences together she would have been better actually and also just she's mysterious and just to go back to the how the business is run again like like we mentioned they would have had nothing yeah that was one yeah if it weren't for the main character being like a comic book artist a cartoonist who has these really detailed panels and has like notes on like how the day went well of course they could recreate the day from that yeah but if they didn't have that they would have been [ __ ] yeah so it just seems kind of silly and i mean like we were saying he the main character the protagonist knows from the get-go that it's false right like that everything is fake yeah and i just feel like this would have been a much more interesting movie if it had been you know when you had like the vr element too like they kept talking yeah like the white wall i thought that that like that would actually be incorporated back in and then that's when you get twisted out like oh this was actually vr and then maybe he hits his head or something and it becomes his reality but he's like brain dead or something and he's like see you can go anywhere but yet they went down the contrary route of actually trying to explain everything yeah like i don't know there's there's another french show on netflix that is that that is kind of like a black mirror type show not quite as dark but it's that high-tech like yeah immersive reality type thing and i just feel like they could have really used that here yeah and they could have done some interesting things they didn't have to explain so much stuff like his sequences of like critiquing i mean like like it's it's a good character build but it's like you you overkill with his critique like we know he's like that but you don't even get a payoff like all that what is that what is that building to exactly the only payoff you get is a comedic payoff in a scene that's like in the as the credits are rolling where you get them being married yeah and like that's the only payoff for that was that i don't think that was even the real marriage no it wasn't but like that's the only payoff for that character type of him being like super critical and like analyzing everything as the set director like you just get that that laugh at the end there's no other payoff that has any ramifications for the main character so yeah i think it's just a really unnecessarily is the real maker well that's the thing it's like i don't even feel like the the quote-unquote protagonist was really the protagonist yeah because he was as long the ride and he actually seemed like the smartest wisest character yeah while everybody else are fuck-ups and this blunders it's like flounder his wife's cheating on him the two people his best friend is like his best friend's a joke yeah his best friend's an idiot um the two you know just you've got the dysfunctional couple and you got all the side characters who are all just like random people doing funny things but they don't really mean anything to the story yeah so he's really like he's really the heart of the story and he's not used that much yeah and then like there's no payoff like you're saying i think like i think to change this like if i didn't have to change too much there would have been an emotional reunion between our set director and our main protagonist because the whole time the separation the set director is like he's affected my life he saved my life absolutely he gave me a book but there's no like oh my god thank you like even that moment there's just a phone call yeah and was that even that phone call was that real like because he hangs up yeah like he's like this sounds stupid so was that a recording yeah that's true so yeah you're right there's no emotional reunion for those characters and his whole motivation for wanting to give this guy a free thing basically well free at first but then he had to start paying but you know was to pay him back for this amazing thing he did for him early in his life which was literally like he gave him a book and he but what was the vacation with what was the book it doesn't matter yeah it literally doesn't matter or yeah or even even the the credit scene sequence was like it undercutted the whole emotional reunion between him and his wife because like you the last scene you you see is him looking out and in the end yeah and see i knew i didn't care about the the reunion of the husband and the wife because that could have been an emotional scene and i think people around us were reacting that way but for me that was after seeing marriage story i know it's two completely different types of movies but after seeing the the breakdown of a marriage in a marriage story and still have like some really raw emotion yeah this one was like their reunion was not like did you have a fight did like are you talking to your wife knowing she had an affair willingly with your best friend and yet now she's on set you guys are all okay and great so it was yeah like i felt like as long this movie was you know less than two hours but i felt like that jump where he gives her the hurts drawings and then that cut where she just goes to the set it's just like did we miss like 15 minutes and i think overall i mean you know the last thing i'll kind of say is that i just expected more from i don't know this director that well he's this is only his second film but i mean it's so safe like the writing and the directing there's nothing that like stands out even now that we've left the movie and i'm like thinking back to it i'm like there's no shot that really stands out to me there's no line of dialogue that is like you know yeah because everything that's emotional she's like i didn't tell her to do that like that one scene where she starts crying and he's like i didn't tell her to do that like if that if he cut that out and just let that scene play out and then like that's it it cuts between him and her and he undercuts most of the emotion when he's like she's going off strip or uh she's doing i'm like great and then like yeah because i feel like there should have been a change of perspective where i feel like the set director could have been the banker yeah also the client is paying you money and you're just gonna barge in on the scene because your lover is kissing improvising yeah like come when the whole mom and dad think of the set reunion the kid shows up and then it's okay like like why are you again like breaking away from like the moment so i feel like this movie is like all over the place where it's just trying to cash in on most of like oh let's just do all these relationships up and then let's bring them all in and it's just like why when you have something i just think it's it's in the end it's just too simple of a story to be paired with what seemed like a high concept i think they should have gone a sci-fi route or not even sci-fi just a mental mental state think about they could have really made it like an immersive reality whether with vr or like some kind of like i don't know maybe maybe there is i haven't been to a closing gala so i don't can't compare maybe like it's supposed to be happy and all that stuff like for me i definitely would have wanted this to be like vr elements and he tries it he likes it he's addicted and then in the end we find out he's so addicted that he's stuck there yeah like that i would have liked yeah but that would have been too dark and sad yeah i mean there's nothing like this movie is not a bad movie but it's like once you're done you're just like okay it's a decent movie but it's not memorable at all yeah like it's like the concept is memorable but then at least then you remember oh yeah that's how they pulled it off and it's less impressive it's it's enjoyable and it's fun and it has a few and has a few like genuinely funny moments but they redo a lot of the stuff yeah like the the glasses guy who's just you know he just wants to get laid and like and hi or or like the other assistant wants to act yeah and it's just redone redone redone and then his critique goes over and over yeah i just feel like with that kind of concept for a business like you need to ensure that your ship is running so smoothly and it's just it has it was a lot more tell the show like it just showed me that it works like show me a satisfy client yeah i agree and that's it that's all i would have needed for it to be established as this business runs yeah but no you kept going the critique critique critique and yeah that's that's it yeah and obviously it's it's a happy ending for the the two main characters the husband and the wife but i really feel like they did not go through that much turmoil no and there's no that was okay fine if i had to really think of a scene that was memorable was their fight like where he he's just like you know you know like they they keep arguing it's like oh you look like a grandpa i am a grandpa you're a grandmother sure but again like the way that that scene was cut yeah after watching marissa yeah the longer take in marriage story of a similar fight yeah it's just too like completely different it was using like pacing and cutting to build up the emotion when when you're not letting your actors do what they sh no i mean i'm i'm pretty sure they're capable but it's just like you're cutting around them so that it's like you you use that tension build because of the fast cuts and then and and yeah you're just not letting let let the screen do the talking yeah so anyways enjoyable but i kind of wish the fast this year and ended on a hot on a on a higher note on a better note like finishing off with parasite would have been wow so much better or even marriage story yeah um but yeah i mean it's okay movie but not one that i'll not one that i'd watch again and not one that's necessarily like recommendable or memorable yeah yeah i agree any last words thanks fif yeah thanks another good year yep lots of good films uh do more weird stuff next year yeah get some weird stuff yeah this is the series see again like french movie after watching dear skin i was so into that like quirky frenchness and i wanted this time travel concept thing to be quirky as well yeah and i didn't get that so so you are unsatisfied with your own expectations yeah i probably set expectations too high for this movie but to be fair i had read a lot of good things about it and none of the reviews had gotten into any specifics so i really didn't know what to expect um i guess i was kind of underwhelmed so there you have it well that's unfortunate anyway so this is fifth 2019 so uh keep watching keep liking and subscribing sure who sharing is caring and uh that's all for this before and after of park the existence the profession of this era is that is that in french the beauty of this era the beautiful area the beautiful area anyways that's it later [Music] you